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A frontier doctor

by Hoyt, Henry F.
Published by : Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts) Physical details: xv, 260 p. Year: 1929
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A pioneer boyhood --
Marking the boundary --
I begin to study medicine --
Off to the Black Hills --
I hang out my shingle in Deadwood --
I go after gold --
Over the trail to Santa Fe --
Searching for John Chisum --
Into the Panhandle --
The doctor turns cowboy --
At the Palo Duro Ranch with Colonel Goodnight --
Back to Tascosa --
Billy the Kid gives me a horse and a bill of sale --
I become a bartender and eat with Jesse James --
The correspondence between Governor Wallace and Billy the Kid --
The assistant Postmaster joins the vigilantes --
Days of violence --
Humors of practice in Bernalillo --
Men of different kinds come to my store --
I testify in court and call on the Governor --
Jessy Martin's gold mine --
Silk hats and a last meeting with Billy the Kid --
I go back to my studies and box with John L. Sullivan --
Getting on in my profession --
Chief surgeon of volunteers in the War with Spain --
To the Philippines and service under fire --
I get a wound in action --
"With General Funston's Compliments" --
Home and back again --
Raids, hunts, and house-parties --
A typical hike after guns --
An attempted tobacco cure --
"The battle of the eggs" --
Back to the States and private life.